Today Is The 48th Anniversary Of My Graduation From This College!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                               Yes, girls, on this day, forty-eight years ago, I graduated from Seton Hall University.  I had my whole life in front of me, and if I had been told where I would be today, back then, I would never have believed it.

                                Within a box of old pictures in our closet is a photo of my mother, father, and Aunt Kathleen (Katty) who was my godmother, on the lawn of the walkway between the library and student center. I know I did not take it, but someone did.  When my mother died, in April 1979, I could not bear to look at it.  Katty died in 2004, at 90, and my father in 2018 at 102.  I have vowed that on the fiftieth anniversary, which is just two years away, I will find this picture, frame it, and put it out on full display in our apartment, then.

                                   I recall the day clearly.  Had I known what the first five or six years were going to be like, I am not sure I would have been able to face them.  Sometimes it is better not to know.

                                   I received the best education I possibly could, at Seton Hall.  I may not have lived up to what I thought was my potential back then, but, hey, I made it to 70, with all the milestones along the way, including the best, marriage.

                                  Over twenty years ago, I made a day trip to Seton Hall with some friends who lived nearby.  I saw how much of it had changed, but how it was still familiar.  I wonder if any familiarity still exists, were I to set foot on that campus today.?

                                     Forty-eight years.  Time went faster than I thought!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                      Treasure each moment, girls!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!